I find it hard to copy drawing locked to an axis in LayOut. It is so simple in SketchUp either holding down the shift key or using the arrow keys to lock in direction. Trying using the shift key when copying in LayOut works fine untill you pass outside the model "border" then it starts jumping up and down snapping to invisible points and sometimes wandering about the screen. Makes me crazy! Why can we not have the same direction locks like in SketchUp?
I often use LayOut for facade drawings, -and the arrow key locks to define the ditections would make it so much easier. ..Or did I miss something?

I made this staircase and try to make it "watertight" for ifc export. So far I failed even though I checked it piece(solid) by piece with Solidinspector. When I check the grouped solid it says 1 Surface Border but I cant find it. Another strange thing is in the ifc model only one step shows up..?
Can anybody help me? Attached is the stairmodel in SUv21.

Hovedtrapp.skp

@nlipovac said:

Sorry friend but I do not get what you are after.
Can you explain it with a hand sketch?
Do you want to have quads make those surfaces?

@box said:

I'm not really sure what you mean by simplify with SUbD, but is this what you want, I just took one skin and cleaned it up a bit.

Thank you, but what I was looking for was a Sub-D face and how to do it?

This file was imported into SketchUp from obj. I want just a simple face, not double.
How can I simplify in SketchUp with Sub D?

SketchUp Model(2018)

WoW! Some really great results here! Unfortunately I could not get a reference photo straight on from sideview but it seems you got great results from "eyeballing".
I learned alot from this and will use your tutorials to improve Sub divide modelling.
Thank you all for your effort ; )

Trying to model a Damixa water tap in SketchUp using Fredos Curviloft. Not satisfied with the results.
Maybe I could use SubD for this but I have no experience. How can I divide this model using SubD?
Can anybody show me the steps how to do it?

Find attached the SU model. I saved it from 2021>2019

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Damixa2019.skp

I made a scrapbook template and wanted to rename it. Instead it was saved as a new template. So I tried to delete the old one but cannot find anything in the Scrapbook folder?

From what I can see the other diagonal is missing 1,5m so something is still ]wrong..

I am using 2021.
Thank you Dave, I will try construct it from your layout. I just couldn´t figure it out but now I think I understand ; )

Yes sorry, I did.

Your result looks interesting Dave. Could you please provide me the SU file for me to check?

Those are all the measurements taken on site including diagonal.
27,8m and 21,10m

Measurements are not taken by me and are probably estimates.

I have a problem figuring out how to construct this plane from measurepoints taken between some trees.

Points are measured between. How can I Construct this plane? And is it possible?
Angles between legs are unknown. Can anybody help?

Is there a way or a PlugIn in LayOut to set radius or diameter?
What about a plugIn setting automaticly a text label for area?

i think I once saw a plugIn for this in SketchUp but cannot find it

Thank you for the tips
I see, -it´s all about modelling to get a clean model. However in my case it´s all about polycount to keep the size down. I know the model is abit rough but my goal is a visually manueverable model much smaller than the original which is very accurate but much too big.

Size approx which is on the model allready

Here is the model in 2018 version. I appreciate your effort ; )

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Sorry, must have linked to the original model. The reason for remodelling was to reduce model size. This is part of a big model 400mb which so far I managed to reduce to 55mb.
Here is a snapshot of the curviloft model which was further reduced with Transmutr.

This is the model I am trying to texture

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So I come to the point where I have managed to create a reduced model in SketchUp.
Now the challenge is how to paint the model with right UV pattern. I´ve tried with Thrupaint and SketchUV with no succes. The pattern should be horisontal following the shape both outside and inside. Size is O.k, but how do I make the texture continous?

New SU Model attached

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This model is part of a big (400mb) model so I am reducing size all over. I have/use Skimp and it does a great job reducing the model but I am also looking for a cleaner model without the triangulation. I think I am onto something now modelling it part by part and merge together with Solid Tools. It´s a job fixing the overlapping geometry manually

Well, I still have some problems with constructing this. Here is a screenshot of what I am trying to achieve:

I am trying to recreate this model which is a big 70mb imported inner ceiling from a CAD program. I want to recreate in SketchUp and reduce it to a visually minimum so it can be easily maneuvered in SketchUp.
I meet a problem with construction going outside the expected result + constructing the ends of this banana shape. Can anybody see if it is doable?

Here is a link to the original file in SKP2017

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